1 Clean up your hard drive清理你的硬盘
The more junk you have cluttering up your hard drive, the longer it takes for your system to access the data it needs—and that's a great reason to regularly scan your folders and toss out files and programs you don't need, or move them somewhere else to make more room.
你硬盘上积累的垃圾越多，你的系统找到需要数据的时间就越长——这就是定期检查文件夹设置和移除不需要的文件和程序的原因，或者将它们放到其他地方，以给
电脑留出更多空间。
One easy (and relatively cheap) solution, says Becky, is to buy an external hard drive for your music, photos, and videos, which can hog a surprisingly large amount of disk space (particularly when it comes to HD-quality TV shows and movies). You can find 500GB external hard drives
online for as little as $50, while plenty of 1TB drives (or 1,000 gigabytes) sell for south of $100. Most USB 2.0 external drives are plug-and-play, meaning you just plug them into your PC's USB 2.0 port and you're ready to start dragging and dropping.
一个简单（又相对便宜）的解决方法，在贝奇看来，就是为你的音乐，相片和视频购买一个去外接硬盘，它能保存让你惊讶的大量硬盘空间（尤其是在高清电视节目和电影时代时）。在网上，你会发现一个能容纳500GB的外接硬盘只需要50美元，同时还有很多可容纳1TB的移动硬盘（即1000GB）正在销售，这意味着你只需要把它们插入电脑的USB 2.0接口即可，而且还可以随时更换它们。
Another options: online storage sites, such as Dropbox and Carbonite.
另一个选择：使用在线存储网站，比如“Dropbox”和“Carbonite”。（译者注：类似中文网站中的“115网盘”等）
Becky also recommends dumping any old programs that you no longer use. For Windows, click the Start menu, open the Control Panel, and select Add/Remove Programs (or "Uninstall a program" in Windows 7). Mac users can look in the Applications folder, which you can open in the Mac OS X Finder by clicking the Window menu and clicking Applications. See a program you simply never use anymore? Consider tossing it in the trash—although again, never throw away an application without knowing what it does first.
贝奇还推荐卸载一些你已经不再使用的旧程序。对Window用户，单击“开始”菜单，打开“控制面板”，选择“添加或删除文件”（或Window7中的“卸载程序”）。苹果机的使用者们则可以找到“应用文件夹”，在那里，点击“窗口”菜单和“应用”按键后，你可以打开苹果操作系统查询。找到你一个基本不用的程序了吗？考虑把它扔到垃圾桶吧——再次强调，不要删除一个你不知道是什么的程序。
2 Defragment your hard drive重新整理你的硬盘
Your computer's hard drive is a lot like a closet: the more cluttered it is, the longer it takes to find stuff. One of the easiest (and most effective) ways of tidying up your hard drive is to defragment it, a process that involves consolidating scattered blocks of data into a larger chunk, resulting in bigger swaths of free disk space.
你电脑中的硬盘已经更像一个橱柜了：它越是乱，找东西所花的时间就越长。让你的硬盘变整洁，有一个最简单（也是最有效率的）的方法，那就是重新整理它，帮助整合分散的数据区块成一个大块，使你拥有更整齐的列表和更多空间。